The iPhone is Huge in Japan

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Posted December 18, 2009 at 2:39pm by Shalom Levytam

The iPhone has captured a 46.1% of the domestic smartphone market in Japan according to research by Tokyo-based research company Impress R&D.

For this year, the iPhone 3G is the most popular device in the segment with 24.6%. It is closely followed by the iPhone 3GS which contributes another 21.5%.

Apple launch the device in Japan in summer 2008 and the iPhone is said to have reached a user base of 3 million Japanese customers, (10% of the global userbase).

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blah - December 19, 2009 at 3:23pm

i was reading this article on another site, and it mentioned while the iphone has almost half the smartphone market, that market is extremely small...